Calling oneself “deplorable” is just to self-identify as racist, sexist and homophobic. Why on Earth did he think that was a good idea? Oh yeah, he thought he was anonymous. Christ, what an asshole. Seems like the university would have some pretty good reasons to not continue his employment.

So many of my professors were up in arms, “how could principles be betrayed?!” I was all, “look, they’ll pay for the dean’s vacation home but they wouldn’t kick a guy to the curb for free speech.” It seemed like this one guy lying was the more likely thing.

The reason the Update is funny is that, in the email correspondence published by NYU, the Dean actually retracts the leave offered (originally at the request of the professor), and demands that he be back teaching the next day. So indeed he does still have his job, and the ball is in the schmuck’s court.

Of course. They keep giving the jobs to women and minorities because of “identity politics,” instead of the white men who deserve them. I know he thinks this, because he states as much multiple times in his Twitter feed, only in stronger terms.

SteampunkBanana:

So many of my professors were up in arms

To be fair, I imagine they found it hard to believe he was being such a disingenuous asshat.

SamSam:

demands that he be back teaching the next day

But he still needs the leave! He took it, apparently, for the sole purpose of being able to claim he was forced out because of his views, and that he still “needs” to do that! Well, either that, or what triggered his leave was his feeling that people were being hostile to him because of his views and he needed a safe space in which to recover, but it can’t be that because that’s exactly what he’s always railing against…

They keep giving the jobs to women and minorities because of “identity politics,” instead of the white men who deserve them.

I know, right? But of course, the reality is that many of the adjuncting jobs are not going to white men, but to women and POC. Disproportionately so. The tenure track is still dominated by white men. The rest of us have to be so much more talented just to get a campus interview.